Government policy is damaging people most vulnerable to alcohol misuse, warns leading doctor

The United Kingdom’s failure to adopt a minimum price for a unit of alcohol is damaging the most vulnerable in society, Ian Gilmore, the Royal College of Physicians’ special adviser on alcohol, warned this week.

Speaking at a joint conference of the Royal College of Physicians, the British Society of Gastroenterology, and the British Association for the Study of the Liver on Monday …